In our third day in Mexico after leaving Poza rica we went through the city of Vera Cruz which is a very nice cosmopolitan seashore
town and went going through several small towns called "poblados" which come about at the edge of the road and where they sell all kinds of things from handmade artifacts, homemade food, bbq chicken with "hot" sauce...and the chiles, of course.

When
you get near a poblado there are speed bumps which here are called "topes" and from time to time I would warn Daniel "tope, daniel...tope..."and they are many, sometimes for many blocks and there we go...at 25 milesan hour...because here the pedestrian comes
first! Besides the fact that pedestrians are around and for times on the road, and the dogs, obviuosly, people in their bicycles, on buggies, motorcycles which are taxis, all sorts of animals as the dogs I mentioned, but also chicken, horses, and the tents
for selling products are very close to the edge of the road,too.

Here as it happens in Brazil there are many toll roads but this does not mean that roads will be in good condition, but there's much road work going on and every place there's only one
lane and the other vehicles need to wait in line to pass the vendors come like crazy trying to sell you all kinds of things from cold water and driks, juice, bread, fruit, plantains...

In Vera Cruz we asked for directions on how to get to the seashore
town of Anton Lizardo while stopped at the stop light and when the guy in the car beside ours started to ive us the directions in Spanisch Daniel showed him a Brazilian flag we have hanging in the mirror and the guy asked "how did you know I'm Brazilian?"
and Daniel answered because of his accent. It ends up he is a photographer from Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais...small world!